Colin Geraghty

Background

About Colin Geraghty

A Lead Business Analyst/Senior Business Analyst providing insight to client’s business problems; helping to elaborate and describe these problems in pragmatic constructs suitable for business case development, investment justification and solution creation. Skills proven over 20+ years within Education, Retail, Utilities, Telecommunications, Oil and Gas, Government and semi-Government organisations. In all cases Waterfall, or more recently, Agile techniques used. Career Highlights: • For multiple years supporting 4 annual upgrades of the Telstra MICA activation / billing eco-system – constant remote dialogue with team-members in Bangalore, India • Leading the IBM Business Analysis Competency for Australia New Zealand for 3 years – 100+ in scope practitioners • Member of systems build team for the huge Chevron Gorgon and Wheatstone Gas Plant projects north of Perth – partnering with technical SMEs, engineers and rig-workers • Within two weeks of arrival at a New Zealand Government site in Wellington, achieving competency in a domain I had not been exposed to previously • Facilitating an exercise to identify revenue building efficiency improvements for a Swinburne University based public course business • Leading a project which in 3 months closed 195 enterprise impacting defects at Synergy Electricity – regularly reporting progress to 3 stakeholder General Managers • Translating vendor RFI documents from Chinese in order to conduct requirements gap analyses for the LIONSGATE Theme Park in China – supporting Chinese SMEs remotely from Melbourne Recent Training- Building Aboriginal Cultural Competency - Applied Business Architecture - AML / CTF / KYC - Finance Foundations - Risk Management - Six Sigma Yellow Belt - Salesforce for Sales Management - Scrum vs Kanban - Jira for Scrum / Jira for Kanban - Professional Scrum Master - Design Thinking - Lean Concepts